The Virgin and Child, c. 1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 27.7 x 23.1 cm (10 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.10, no. 1, State i/ii

Accession Number

1998.50.1

Artists / Makers

Andrea Mantegna (artist) Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: B.8 I

Provenance

Walter Gay [1856-1937], Paris; Fritz Lugt, Paris acquired, late 1920s; private collection, New York, acquired c. 1940; (by descent to heirs, via N.G. Stogdon); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Gay, Walter
Lugt, Frits
Stogdon, N.G.

Exhibition History

1956: Prints 1400-1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and tour, 1956, no. 86, pl. 35.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

Bibliography

1938: Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

2001: Fletcher, Shelley. "A Closer Look at Mantegna's Prints." Print Quarterly 18/1 (2001): 3-41, fig. 60.

2008: Agosti, Giovanni and Dominique Thiebault.Mantegna: 1431-1506. Exh. cat. Musee du Louvre, Paris, 2008: no. 113.

2010: Christiansen, Keith.The Genius of Mantegna.New York, 2010: fig. 40.

2013: Lucco, Mauro. Mantegna. Milan, 2013: 250, 251, fig. 64.